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IRLF 


SB    273 


GIFT   OF 
Class   of   1900 


The  Rich  Mentality 

By  HARRIET  HALE 


A  LECTURE 

Delivered  at  Hotel  Brighton, 

Washington,  D.  C., 

September  4,  1914. 


Published  by 
THE  MASTER  MIND  PUBLISHING  CO., 

LOS  ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA 
1916 


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Copyright,  1916,  by 
The  Master  Mind  Publishing  Co. 


FOREWORD 


ORDS  of  Truth  written  or  spoken 
from  a  consciousness  of  the  absolute 
reality  of  the  substance  in  them,  do 
more  than  satisfy  the  intellect  or  the 
senses.  They  are  God's  means  of  bringing  to 
pass  the  very  Good  about  which  they  are  uttered. 
Therefore,  Reader,  read  slowly  and  ponder 
these  words  in  your  heart.  They  will  uncover 
the  Rich  Mentality,  with  which  God  has  en- 
dowed you  and  open  the  Way  to  your  perpetual 
Prosperity. 

The  author,  herself,  is  a  living  demonstration 
of  the  Truth  that  she  declares,  and  she  knows 
that  what  has  come  to  her  is  a  free  gift  of  God 
to  all. 

May   this   message   be   a   fulfillment   of   the 
decree  of  the  Author  of  all  wealth — "for  it  is 
He  that  giveth   thee   power  to  get  wealth"- 
respecting  every  word  of  Truth  that  He  has  sent 
forth  through  his  consecrated  Messengers: 

"For  as  the  rain  cometh  down,  and  the  snow 
from  heaven,  and  returneth  not  thither,  but 

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watereth  the  earth,  and  maketh  it  bring  forth 
and  bud,  that  it  may  give  seed  to  the  sower,  and 
bread  to  rh'i  (^ater:" 

"So  shall. my  word  be  that  goeth  forth  from 
oui.  of  my  mouth:  it  shall  not  return  unto  me 
void,  but  it  shall  accomplish  that  which  I  please, 
and  prosper  in  the  thing  where  to  I  sent  it." — 
Isaiah  55:10,  11. 

ANNIE  RIX  MILITZ, 
Editor,  THE  MASTER  MIND. 


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Thou  shalt  Remember  the  Lord,  r 
thy  God-,  for  it  is  He  thatgi<veth  \ 
thee  Power  to  Get  Wealth 

^_— — — — — — — — — — — — — . 


THE  RICH  MENTALITY 

WILL  take  up  tonight  the  second  sub- 
ject of  my  course,  The  Rich  Mental- 
ity. The  world  is  being  educated,  as 
never  before,  to  recognize  the  truth, 
the  whole  truth,  about  prosperity.  The  world  is 
demanding  more  today  of  the  noble  and  ideal, 
of  honesty  in  all  financial  dealings,  than  ever 
before.  We  are  going  through  a  very  critical 
time  and  those  who  know  most  about  the  truth  in 
connection  with  prosperity,  success  and  kindred 
subjects  will  pass  through  this  crisis  with  the 
least  proportion  of  unrest  and  sense  of  loss.  The 
more  materialistic,  those  of  the  commercial 
world  who  must  have  money  in  order  to  feel 
rich,  will  suffer  most  from  panic,  the  disturbance 
and  pressure. 

But  as  we  go  through  these  critical  times,  we 
are  purified  and  cleansed,  especially  if  we  try  to 
think  correctly  of  that  which  appears  to  our  dis- 
advantage. I  would  like  to  make  a  statement 
here  at  the  very  beginning  and  have  you  enter- 

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tain  it  tonight  in  the  silence,  and  plant  this  state- 
ment, this  idea,  in  your  heart  as  you  would  a 
seed,  to  grow.  It  is  this:  That  the  more  difficult 
the  situation  is,  the  higher  you  will  rise  if  you 
think  correctly  about  it.  Let  us  make  a  familiar 
and  close  communication  with  the  heart  of  it, 
so  that  in  the  future  when  we  may  need  to  be 
strong  under  great  pressure  or  temptation  we 
may  through  this  correct  thinking  about  it  be 
blessed  and  comforted. 

SILENCE 

This  is  an  excellent  rule  and  true  of  all  our 
activities  and  especially  of  prosperity,  that  as 
you  think  correctly  about  a  thing,  you  are  master 
of  the  situation  and  no  evil  in  it  nor  loss  nor  limi- 
tation can  hold  or  bind  you.  But  also  you  will 
have  need  to  philosophize  about  what  is  the 
correct,  the  right  thinking,  or  what  the  highest 
consciousness  is  about  a  subject.  I  believe  that 
the  only  answer  here  must  be  to  think  as  God 
thinks  about  it.  We  cannot  go  beyond  this  and 
to  think  about  an  experience  as  God  thinks  about 
it  is  victory. 

Right  thinking  is  health,  joy,  freedom,  pros- 
perity. Prosperity,  as  I  said  last  night,  does 
not  consist  in  the  things  you  possess — in  the 
money  you  have  in  bank.  In  fact,  we  might 

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say  from  a  very  free  standpoint,  that  if  you 
absolutely  understand  prosperity  you  have  no 
need  of  any  bank  account.  Prosperity  is  a  way, 
a  mode,  of  thinking.  So  is  poverty.  You  are 
poor  if  you  class  yourself  this  way,  and  you  are 
rich  if  you  can  think  rich  thoughts,  thoughts 
that  are  constructive,  optimistic,  unlimited — 
these  instantly  crown  you  successful. 

The  mentality  must  first  be  rich  towards  God 
—rich  in  God-knowledge  and  consciousness.  I 
cannot  think  of  wealth  and  prosperity  and  suc- 
cess as  a  lasting  possession  to  those  who  are  cal- 
lous regarding  the  spiritual  life.  Dr.  Bucke, 
who  studied  cosmic  consciousness  for  over  thirty 
years,  states  that  in  all  his  examinations  of  men 
and  women  he  has  never  come  across  a  single 
case  of  cosmic  consciousness  where  the  indi- 
vidual was  bent  on  making  money;  whose  whole 
conception  of  life  was  accumulation.  This  is  a 
law.  You  cannot  love  God  and  love  money. 
You  cannot  both  work  for  a  great  ideal  and 
work  for  selfish  ends,  for  money  or  a  living. 
X  It  is  a  mistake  to  work  for  a  living.  To  work 
j  mis  way  is  to  be  a  slave  under  dominion  to  the 
laws  of  slavery.  Never  work  for  a  living.  How 
can  you  gain  a  life?  Lifejis!  ~  Vou  cannot  pay 
for  it.  You  have  no  price  to  give  in  exchange 

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for  life,  for  your  breath  and  your  being.  You 
are  not  here  to  work  by  strenuous  effort  to  make 
life.  You  are  here  under  the  blessing  of  God  to 
live  a  life  of  wholesome,  loving  kindness,  of  suc- 
cess and  good  will  towards  each  other  and  the 
bringing  out  of  your  own  nature,  the  divine  self. 
God  lives  you  every  moment.  If  you  are  cori- 
scious  that  God  is  your  very  life  and  being  you 
will  not  work  to  express  it  in  the  terms  of  mortal 
consciousness,  in  dollars  and  cents  arid  salary. 
You  will  no  longer  serve  the  old  world  concep- 
tion of  prosperity.  What  you  do  you  will  do 
with  your  might  in  the  service  of  Principle, 
like  Brother  Lawrence — he  did  not  work  for  a 
living,  he  worked  to  express  God  by  living  in  so 
attractive  a  way  as  to^iraw  other  men  to  the  Di- 
vine Life?  The  kitchen  of  that  monastery  wKereT 
he  cookect  was  more  magnetic  than  any  other 
part  of  the  whole  concern.  He  was  rich  towards 
God  and  man,  not  like  an  ox  driven  by  the 
duties  demanded  of  him.  He  was  a  man  serv- 
ing a  great  Principle  and  he  lived  in  security. 

You  are  useful  to  God  as  you  are  emptied  of 
self  and  keep  from  worrying,  fearing  and  fret- 
ting about  today,  tomorrow  or  yesterday.  Your 
life  is  inspired  and  inspiring  all  about  you. 
Whoever  comes  in  contact  with  an  inspired  soul 


THE   RICH    MENTALITY 


realizes  the  beauty  o_f  it    The  Rich  Mentality 
is  the  inspiration  of  life.     I  will  say  something 
about  tHat  presently,  Hut  for  the  moment  I  will  ^ 
affirm  this,  that  the  rich  mentality  is  so  full  of  I 
awakened  consciousness,  so  absolutely  certain  of  \ 
the  Truth,  the  Ideal  and  the  Real,  that  it  never 
fears  poverty.^  It  is  not  being  hindered  by  any 
effort  to  fight  poverty,  or  lack,  or  want.     It  is 
all  love,  all  peace,  because  it  is  the  love  of  recog- 
nized  good. 

Now  the  old  life  of  poverty  may  be  described 
as  it  is  in  Genesis,  the  curse,  the  old  Adamic 
curse  on  man,  that  he  shall  work  by  the  sweat  of 
his  brow,  and  the  race  has  considered  this  law  as 
spxingmg  from  the  gr^tjnincLof^God,  the  great 
mindjDf  Wisdom.  But  we  recognize  that  this  is 
not  the  design  of  the  Mqst_High;  it  is  an  idea 
brought  about  through  the  mind  of  man,  under 
the  belief  that  he  has  fallen  into  sin  and  must 
be  punished  and,  after  utterly  paying  the  price, 
enter  into  paradise.  This  is  not  the  attitude  as 
we  find  it  in  the  quickened  character.  If  you  are 
realizing  inwardly  that  yoju  are  the  Son  of  God^ 
you  will  take  the  stand  of  JesusChrisFand  throw 
off  the  yoke  of  the  old  curse  anTTrefuse  to  work 
by  the  sweat  of  your  brow.  You  know  that  the 
lesser  Ijiws  are  fulfilled  in  the  great  law  that  sets 

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man  in  tune  with  the  Infinite.  Because  he  loves 
God  first,  his  Divinity,  he  is  set  free  from  every 
law  that  limits."  It  Is  the  only  law  that  sets  man 
really  free — to  love  with  all  one's  mind  and  soul 
and  strength,  and  to  exercise  this  love  toward 
one's  fellow  beings — to  love  your  neighbor  as 
your  God,  or  as  your  Divine  Self. 

Thus  is  man  introduced  to  himself  as  he  finds 
the  Man  who  is  really  rich.  He  begins  to  realize 
that  he  is  n£t  poor  in  spirit  but  rich  in  wisdom, 
God  being  his  mind,  his  intelligence,  his  think- 

•  -•'  -        O     — — **_       _  " 

ing  power,  arid  he  is  governed  and  guided  and 
controlled  by  the  Rich  Mentality.  He  does  not 
groan  and  moan,  and  fear  poverty.  Nor  does 
he  prepare  for  a  future  that  will  lack  anything 
good  so  long  as  he  knows  but  one  Provider,  One 

~  <    '  aj_        — m  u       j  r        r    ^n*^ 

Inexhaustible  Presence.  For  that  faith  closely 
allies  hirtTwith  this  Great  Spirit,  active  and  liv- 
ing withmjiim.  Therefore  he  3oes  not  prepare 
for  olcTage  with  its  sorrow  and  lack  so  unattract- 
ive. He  intends  to  become  more  attractive,  for 
the  older  he  grows  the  nearer  he  should  be  to 
the  GreaHCenter,  and  the  Great  White  Light  of 
Being. 

The  rich  mentality  fears  nothing,  and  he  is 
free  from  the"  burden  and  care  lirTat  the  world 
groans  under.  He  is  not  under  the  law  of  wear 

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and  tear  and  exhaustion  because  this  rich  sub- 
consciousness  of  him  causes  him  to  know~that 
his  good  is  inexhaustible!  He  is  not  serving  a 
good  "that  is  liable  to  cease,  but  his  good  is  so 
manifold  and  widely  spread  that  it  might  be 
accused  of  wastefulness.  Think  of  all  that  the 
hills  and  mountains  contain  that  has  never  been 
revealed  or  opened  up  to  this  age !  The  wonder- 
ful gems  and  jewels,  gold  and  silver,  that  await 
future  ages,  already  stored  underground,  and 
this  is  but  the  symbol  of  the  greater  storehouse 
of  God. 

The  man  of  this  vision  exercises  faith  and  he 
wants  to  exercise  faith.  In  the  rich  mentality 
he  never  thinks  that  he  can  be  lazy  and  ncvcr^ 
work  any  more.  He  knows  that  he  can  convert 
Divine  energy^and  force  every  moment  and  so  he 
is  active  with  great  dynamic  power.  He  uses 
faith  every  moment.  IfTs  rn^joy^and  incentive, 
and  life  is  thoroughly  interesting  to  the  one  who 
practically  enters  into  an  alignment  with  the 
rich  mentality. 

The  rich  mentality  is  supreme  in  this,  that  it 
believes  absolutely  in  the  good.  You  cannot 
persuade  it  that^evil  is  a  reality;  it  does  not  sk 
down  to  meditate  on  evil ;  TTTTas  no  moments  of 
malice  or  jealousy  orHiate;  it  has  no  time  for 

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these,  for  its  whole  time  is  taken  up  on  lines  that 
are  strong,  powerful  witnesses  of  the  good.  And 
it  pays  the  one  who  exercises  his  mind  in  this 
direction,  and  he  never  consents  to  talk  about 
evil  as  a  reality.  He  knows  that  thinking  about 
good  is  the  rule  and  the  standard  which  is  his 
unfailing  resource.  He  entertains  it  for  his 
business  life,  for  his  social  life;  in  his  relations 
with  men;  with  his  own  family  and  children. 
Every  rcla tigrish ip  must  be  maintained  in  the 
recognition  of  the  good  ancTthe  good  only.  Thus 
heTs  educating  himself,  training  himself  as  God 
desires  him  to  live  and  to  be  happy. 

Now  we  are  all  after  that,  are  we  not?  If  we 
could  find  one  word  to  cover  our  aspirations  to- 
night, could  we  find  a  larger  word,  or  that  is 
more  inclusive  than  joy  or  happiness?  I  do  not 
mean  that  happiness  which  the  world  so  defines 
to  us — a  limitation  that  fritters  away  and  is 
liable  to  be  lost.  I  mean  the  lasting  happiness— 
the  happiness  that  is  secured  to  the  individual  by 
fidelity  to  principle. 

Infinite  Mind  made  you  for  happiness;  it 
made  you  capable  of  a  supreme  bliss,  able  to  en- 
joy as  you  little  dream  today  you  can  enjoy  life. 
You  will  begin  to  smile  the  moment  you  actually 
believe  this  and  do  away  with  the  wrinkled 

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thoughts,  the  troubled  thoughts.  You  will  grow 
perpetually  young  through  the  inspiration  of  the 
Almighty  penetrating  to  the  innermost  realm  of 
your  heart,  and  you  can  keep  it  there  and  it  is 
bound  to  make  you  strong  and  beautiful. 

The  rich  mentality  maintains  a  cheerful  atti- 
tude which  can  smile  pain  down,  and  sorrow 
away,  and  se£ming  trouble  into  nothingness.  It 
minimizes  instantly  triat  which  the  wqrfcT f eels 
to  be  oppression  and  loss  and  inharmpny,  and 
feels  the  niasteryoverit.  It  is  a  wonderful  capi- 
tal! 

A  man  once  came  to  my  door  in  Alameda  and 
wanted  to  sell  me  some  shoestrings.  You  know 
the  kind  of  a  man  who  sells  shoestrings.  He  is 
a  man  who  does  not  smile  very  much.  If  he 
smiled  very  much  he  would  be  selling  something 
else  than  shoestrings.  He  does  not  have  the  rich 
mentality  towards  life  and  well  being;  he  does 
not  have  the  right  attitude  towards  the  law  of 
success.  And  he  came  all  bent  over,  although  a 
young  man  in  years,  and  begged*  me  to  buy  a 
shoestring.  He  looked  so  lugubrious,  complain- 
ing of  every  resident  of  my  town,  declaring  that 
nobody  was  kind  and  nobody  would  buy.  So  he 
had  to  get  a  lesson  and  this  was  the  lesson : 

He  was  told  to  go  away  and  instead  of  look- 
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ing  so  mournful  that  nobody  wanted  to  open  the 
door,  he  should  go  forth  with  a  smile  and  with 
faith  in  himself  and  in  the  kindness  of  those 
with  whom  he  should  come  in  contact.  He 
said: 

"Will  that  pay?  And  will  it  sell  my  needles 
and  shoestrings?" 

He  was  assured  that  it  would,  far  better  than 
the  attitude  he  had  taken.  In  a  few  days  he  came 
back  and  told  me  he  had  taken  my  advice  and 
that  he  had  sold  more  in  that  afternoon  than  in 
a  month,  and  his  business  had  picked  up  and  was 
growing.  That  is  what  the  smile  does.  And 
the  world  needs  your  smile;  it  is  the  smile  that 
heals  the  world.  It  is  the  smile,  not  the  groan, 
that  makes  for  a  spiritual  life  and  for  success. 
Then  it  should  be  your  part  to  contribute  these 
to  the  world  and  help  others  who  are  bestowing 
smiles  upon  the  world  to  redeem  it. 

The  rich  mentality  can  smile  because  it  kjiows. 
It  is  sure  of  some  things,  because  it  is  absolutely 
certajn  of  others  worth  while.  It  faiowsTjojI  as 
tenderness  ancTloye  ras  the~  All- Providing  Pres; 
ence  and  therefore  it  smiles  with  an  inner  smile 
of  good  cheer  and  certainty  and  stren^th^ 

The  riclTTneritaHty~lIbes  not  lo^ejTioney,  it 
loves_God.  How""coiild_.  it  love  God  supremely 

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and  lovemoney?  It  does  not  divide  its  forces 
foolisKIy,  foTTf  sees  readily  that  those  who  love 
money  become  metallic,  their  eyes  are  metallic, 
their  souls  are  metallic,  and  the  strength  of 
muscle  and  brain  lessens  daily,  being  sold  in  one 
who  serves  money.  The  rich  mentality  is  master 
of  money,  does  not  serve  money,  and,  being  its 
master,  money  feels  attracted  towards  that  one^. 
Inhere  is  a  certain  intelligence  in  money.  It 
wants  to  be  used  by  those  who  are  able  intel- 
ligently to  keep  it  in  circulation,  for  circulation 
is  the  very  spirit  of  money.  If  it  is  hoarded  or 
put  away,  it  corrodes  and  dies,  but  as  it  is  kept 
in  motion,  it  is  kept  in  life.  Therefore  it  is  not 
the  accumulation  and  the  grabbing  of  money 
that  constitute  wealth,  but  the  giving  and  letting 
it  go  forthjreely.  To  the  rich  mentality  money 
is  a  blessmgpBut  to  the  poor  mentality  it  is  a 
curse.  It  is  not  that  money  is  the  source  of  evil, 
but  the  love  of  money.  Pam  and  sickness  and 
sorrow  would  vanish  if  we  would  renounce  the 
love  of  money,  and  love  God  as  our  Provider, 
Success  and  Life.  "iTTie  earth  is  the  Lord's  and 
thTTullness  tKereof." 


As  you  decide  to  stand  by  the  principles  of 
Truth  in  your  success  and  prosperity,  you  no 
longer  work  under  the  false  idea  of  economy, 


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because  many  people  are  only  economical 
through  a  belief  in  poverty,  not  from  the  stand- 
point of  prosperity.  Their  prosperity  is  only 
beggaring  them.  You  have  seen  people  that 
deny  themselves  the  luxuries  and  comforts  of 
life,  the  things  that  make  life  beautiful,  although 
they  have  much  property  and  money  aplenty  but 
not  the  right  thought. 

It  is  then  a  matter  of  thinking,  of  contacting 
this  great  white  Truth.  Ignorance  or  know- 
ledge?  MoseT~is  an~example.  His  great  riches 
were  inexhaustible;  so  magnificent  were  they 
that  after  he  had  taken  the  children  of  Israel  out 
of  slavery  in  Egypt,  he  fed  them  by  a  setf- 
conscigus,  working  miracle-law  for  forty  yeajrs 
with  a  strange  bread  known  as  "the  manna  in  the 
wilderness."  Djd  YOU-  think  that  an  int^rferjng 
God  hact  given  this  blessmgfto  the  Israelites?  It 
was  the  direct  w&rk  of  the  mind  of  Moses,  the 
God  in  Moses.  He  knew  how  to  produce  and  re- 
pToduce  and  to  keep  it  urj  indefinitely.  He  knew 
how  to  strike  a  flint  rock  by  which  it  would 
spring  fortli~  a  refreshing  stream.  Repeatedly 
he  did  this  and  it  was  but  the  forerunner  of  great 
things  to  come,  the  symbol  of  a  consciousness-of- 
providing,  that  is  close  at  hand,  so  close" to  you 
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yet  we  may  pass  through  this  incarnation  with- 
out recognizing  or  receiving  any  benefit  from 
it  if  We  close  our  eyes""tcTits  Presence,  or  our 
hearts  to  its  reception.  It  needs  that  we  under- 
stand that  God  is  Frosperity,  and  every  blessing 
proceeds  from  the  infinite,  inexhaustible^Re- 
sourceT,  the  Mind_gf  Tjod.  We  want  to  know 
more  and  more  of  this  wonderful  law  and  how 
to  apply  it  in  life  so  that  it  shall  quickly  bring 
to  us  our  own  inheritance. 

The  rich  mentality  is  aljwaysorijrinal.  You 
are  origmal  because  Qod  majej^ou  so.  I  say  you 
are  original,  but  do  ^^wjnsistugonit?  Are  you 
even  willing  to  be  origmal?  Tquestion  whether 
you  are  willing  to  be  as  Godjmadeyou.  How 
splendid  and  royal  and  kingly,  if  everyone 
would  be  willingjto  be  original!  To  be  original^ 
is  to  ]) eT^od^Ma n .  It  is  to  be  well  and  to  be^T 
home.  When  you  do  not  feel  at  home  it  is  be- 
cause there  is  too  muchjDretense.  I  mean  that 
we  are  too  willing  to  go  with  the  crowd,  that  we 
would  rather  be  a  counterfeit  than  the  genuine 
self  that  God  made  us.  There  would  be  a  great 
transformation  if  you  would  take  the  stand  that 
God  never  made  two  exactly  alike.  We  are  all 
independent,  and  yet  beautifully  interdependent 
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standpoint,  interdependent.    If  we  realized  this      -•' 
there  would  never  be  selfishness  and  discord.    It 
would  be  the  Bellamy  plan  come  to  fruition.     ( 
Every  man  would  find  his  work,  his  place,  and 
we  would  all  be  doing  what  we  enjoy  doing.      { 
That  would  indeed  be  the  Golden  Age.  ^ 

Insist   upon    originality    and    resources    will    .  * 
come  to  you  whefTyduTare  pushed  or  cornered.    ^ 
You  will  be  the  resourceful  one  that  God  made  V 
ymi.     God  will  impTess^upon  you  the  new  _way    JA 
ami  means  to  take. 

I  have  a  cousin  in  the  West  who  is  an  original 
thinker,  who  never  insists  on  doing  things  as 
other  people  do.  He  has  ideas  of  his  own  be- 
cause he  dares  to  think  with  God  and  to  let  God 
think  through  him.  He  believes  that  if  he 
should  lose  all  that  he  has  he  could  easily  re- 
gain it  through  this  consciousness.  In  talking 
to  some  club  friends  one  day  he  affirmed  that, 
if  given  a  nucleus,  even  though  it  appeared  use- 
less, that  he  would  make  it  produce  something 
without  the  use  of  capital.  The  friends  took 
him  up  and  he  promised  to  try  it  out.  Looking 
about  for  some  nucleus  they  saw  a  pile  of  scrap 
tin  which  was  about  to  go  into  the  garbage 
wagon.  It  certainly  looked  useless  and  impos- 
sible. But  the  friends  said,  "There  it  isj"  and 

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they  left  the  shop  laughing.  He  felt  almost 
vanquished  by  his  nucleus,  but  he  looked  at  it 
and  concentrated  his  mind  upon  this  tin  and  he 
said:  "This  tin  will  tell  me  what  it  can  do,  what 
is  can  shape  and  form  and  what  can  come  out  of 
it."  Presently  there  came  into  his  mind  the 
picture  of  a  little  matchbox.  And  so  he  began 
to  cut  and  bend  and  pretty  soon  he  had  shaped  a 
little  matchbox.  He  called  a  boy  passing  along 
and  asked  him  to  take  the  matchbox  out  and  try 
to  sell  it  for  twenty- five  cents ;  that,  if  he  did,  he 
would  give  him  ten  cents  of  it  for  selling  it.  The 
boy  came  back  delighted  a  little  while  later,  hav- 
ing sold  the  matchbox  for  twenty-five  cents,  and 
receiving  the  ten  cents  promised.  So  with  this 
capital  of  fifteen  cents  my  cousin  invested  in  some 
paint  with  which  to  decorate  the  match  boxes. 
The  boy  being  so  happy  with  his  sale,  soon 
brought  several  other  boys,  who  also  wanted  to 
sell  matchboxes,  and  so  in  the  course  of  several 
weeks  he  had  quite  a  capital  as  a  result  of  that 
scrap  tin.  And  he  proved  there  is  a  law  within 
us  that  we  need  never  remain  cast  down  or 
crushed  if  we  will  not  believe  that  we  are 
crushed  or  cornered,  but  keep  our  eye  on  the 
original  way  out. 

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We  have  had  such  false  teaching  about  pros- 
perity from  the  pulpit.  Yet  the  Churches  and 
Cathedrals  stand  as  monuments  of  prosperity, 
though  the  ministers  have  declared  that  Christ 
was  poor  and  that  in  some  strange  way  his  fol- 
lowers should  also  be  poor.  Jesus  Christ  was 
not  poor.  How  can  you  think  that  he  was  poor, 
or  is  poor?  Why,  we  are  all  poor  compared  to 
him,  as  we  are  manifesting  today.  If  you  know 
not  of  what  wealth  consists,  are  you  not  poor  as 
a  Vanderbilt  who  on  his  deathbed  cried  out, 
"Poor _and  needy  indeed,"  because  his  wealth 
consisted  o^  things  which  he  coukLnot  take  with 
him,  and  his  mind  an  empty^vojd. 

Jesus  Christ  was  the  wealthiest  man  who  ever 
trod  this  earth.     He  needed  not  to  exercise  any/ 
effort  to  maintain  himself.     He  sent  his  dis-) 
ciples  forth,  telling  them  not  to  provide  two 
coats,  or  shoes,  or  to  take  scrip  with  them,  for, 
he  said,  "ThemajLJ  send jforth  is  worthy^f  his 
hire,"  that  is,  hewiTTbe  maintained  by  a  Divme  / 
Ow.     After  a  time  he  said  to  them,  uWhen  I 
sent  you  without  purse  and  scrip,  lacked  ye  any- 
thing?" and  they  said,  "Nay,  Lord,  we  lacked 
nothing." 

Jesus  Christ  was  not  poor.  Would  you  be 
poor  if  you  could  heal  every  disease  that  came  to 

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you?  Would  you  be  poor?  Would  you  be  poor 
if  you  could  raise  a  dead  man  from  the  tomb? 
Would  you  be  poor  if  you  could  turn  weak  water 
into  rich  wine?  Would  you  be  poor  or  would 
you  be  rich?  Would  you  be  poor  if  you  could 
take  two  loaves  and  five  fishes  and  feed  five  thou- 
sand Belgians  today  with  all  they  want  and  have 
much  left  over?  Would  you  be  poor  or  would 
you  be  rich?  Be  sensible!  Was  Jesus  Christ 
poor?  Why  he  had  the  miracle  working  Mind 
—the  Mind  that  increases  through  rich  think- 
ing, rich  knowledge.  And  so  my  Christ  is  not  a 
poor  Christ.  /  wish  I  were  as  wealthy.  What 
were  a  million  dollars  in  your  hand  to  that 
power  he  possessed?  Which  would  you  take? 
Not  one  of  you  would  hesitate  a  second  if  you 
are  sensible.  You  would  be  wealthy  with  that 
knowledge. 

Paul  says  that  whereas  Christ  was  rich,  he  took 
upon  himself  poverty  that  we  might  be  rich. 
That  is,  he  took  upon  himself  the  appearance  of 
poverty  and  he  provedTriat  having  is^^Tpros- 
perity,  but  if  one  TETnks  richly  he  is  indeed  the 
wealthiest  of  men. 

If  you  are  working  consciously  with  the  great 
law  of  God,  you  are  inspired.  Ask  yourself, 
"Am  I  inspired  in  the  work  I  am  doing?  " 


THE   RICH    MENTALITY 


put  enthusiasm  into  my  work?  Or  am  I  work- 
ing as  a  slave  man,  driven  and  bound?"  If  the 
latter,  heal  yourself  of  these  thoughts  and  be- 
come enthusiastic. 

The  rich  mentality  does  not  scorn  to  work  or 
scorn  any  character  of  work.  It  loves  to  work 
because  inspired  in  all  that  it  does.  I  said  that 
no  man  could  work  for  money  only.  A  man 
demonstrated  this  once  by  hiring  a  man  for  three 
dollars  a  day  just  to  take  a  brick  up  from  a  spot 
on  one  side  of  the  street  and  place  it  in  another 
spot  across  the  street  and  vice  versa  all  day  long. 
At  first  the  man  entered  into  the  job  with  alac- 
rity, but  he  soon  grew  weary,  and  the  outcome 
was  that  he  threw  up  the  job,  refused  to  work  at 
it  and  said  he  would  rather  starve  than  to  work 
one  more  day  at  such  a  terrible  job  as  that. 

We  are  not  here  to  work  for  anything  less  than 
to  unfold  our  God  nature,  our  Divine  Self,  and 
this  is  not  possible  when  we  concentrate  on 
money  alone.  What  is  money?  Why~you  are 
the  creator  and  maker  of  money.  You  put  into 
it  all  that  makes  it  of  value  and  you  can  with- 
draw that  and  it  is  not  worth  any  more  than  sand. 
God  did  not  make  money  valuable;  to  him  there 
is  no  difference  between  a  pebble  and  a  diamond. 

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u  must  give  if  you  would  get;  the  man  who, 

/forgets  to  giy^Torpcts  how  to  receive.  He  closes 
the  door  oT  receptivity;  he  closes  the  door  of 
life  and  is  like  aTaRe  which,  unless  opened  at 
both  ends,  becomes  stagnant.  Many  people  are 
planting  disease,  physical  poverty  and  misery 
of  all  kinds  through  not  maintaining  the  other 
Jialf  of  the  law  of  Prosperity^l^hey  wanLto  re^_ 
Tjerve  Q-nlVi  but  the  law  is  not  a  hemisphere,  it  is 
a^sghereT^  It  is  only  as  you  bring  the  l^o  parts 
tqgetRer  and  recognize  that  giving  and  receive 
ing  sEould  be  ec[ual,  that  you  can  weldjjiefn^into 
a  unit  and  hjivetKe  law  w,oikfgt^ou.  "With 
what  measure  you  give,  itsrTall  be  measured 
back  to  you." 

This  mind  that  is  the  Ridi  Mentality  nevej: 
takes  offense  nor  receives  an  msult.  Think  aFbut 
that— it  rTever  receives  an  insult.  It  never  feels 


hurt  and  is  ncvej^&scouragcd  5  it  is  never  jealous. 
ft^Ts  never  an^^^becaus^-anger  is  poverty  of 
consciousness ;  no  one  gets  angry^  until  he  thinks 
he  is  inefficient  or  is  conscious  of  a  sense  _oj-jvea'Kr. 
ness.  The  Tich  mentality  never  knows  malice; 
resentment  never  suggests  itself  to  it.  It  is  never 
doubtful  of  tne  go_Q^"oTTts  possibiTTties.  It  never 
listens  to  words  oflTrreporF  and  therefore  never 
repeats  them.  It  does  not  gossip  nor  love  iniqui- 

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tous  things  because  the  rich  mentality  is  LOVE. 
It  has  always  words  of  praise  for  all  who  come 
within  its  presence.  It  has  no  enemies,  is  not 
self-seeking  and  knows  no  pride.  "Let  this  mind 
be  in  you"  and  your  body  will  become  perfect, 
enduring,  strong  and  beautiful,  and  your  affairs 
full  of  delight  and  plenty. 

The  rich  mentality  does  not  look  for  flaws,  is 
not  complaining;  never  worries,  frets  nor  fears; 
never  anxious  nor  overcome;  it  never  fights,  re- 
sists,  nor  in  cowardice  turns  its  back.  Hate  is  un- 
known  to  it  and  death  has  no  terrors,  while  sick- 
ness  is  completely  under  its  control.  It  is  never 
sad  nor  gloomy;  it  never  dwells  upon  evil  for  five 
minutes;  it  hasjio  doubt  of  the  power  of  good: 
does  not  condemrilior  judge,  all  because  it  is  trie" 
Mind  of  God,  the  richest  Mind  in  all  Being.  * 

Let  us  be  silent  for  a  moment  and  entertain 
these  statements.  Let  us  relax  and  open  our 
hearts  to  the  Greater  Self,  to  the  Self  more  abun- 
dant, to  the  One  Self  of  us  which  is  not  duality 
nor  multiplicity  nor  division,  but  One  Self, 
radiantly  beautiful  and  divine,  the  Self  that  is 
described  only  in  deific  terms. 

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SILENCE 

I  am  rich  in  God's  love. 

I  give  my  best  to  the  world  and  the  best  the 
world  has  comes  back  to  me. 

I  am  Prosperity.  I  am  Success.  God  made 
me  so. 

I  claim  my  own  freely  and  fearlessly. 

My  Prosperity  is  based  upon  the  true  founda- 
tion, therefore  is  changeless,  is  GOD,  and  the 
Spirit,  overshadowing  and  indwelling,  my  one 
and  everlasting  good.  Amen! 


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